Your WBFJ Family Station Forecast: Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon…High 70. Beautiful Saturday and Sunday (Mother's Day) coming up.
'Al-Qaida confirms bin Laden death'
www.journalnow.com/news/2011/may/06/al-qaida-confirms-bin-laden-death-ar-1010293/
A study by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities showing that arts education improves student performance, even test scores . The "Re-investing in Arts Education" study examined recent data from schools in several states, including North Carolina, finding that integrating the arts with other subjects is particularly effective at raising achievement in math and reading.
A truck driver was killed last night after being run over by his own tractor-trailer. 61 year old George Taylor, of Kernersville, was killed around 7:45pm while delivering fuel to the Quality Mart on Hanes Mall Blvd. (Fox 8)
Captain Tony Perez, with the Salvation Army in High Point, will oversee disaster relief efforts next week in Smithville, Mississippi. Captain Perez and his team will manage and provide food, clothing and toiletries to those in need. Deadly tornadoes ripped through several states including Mississippi two weeks ago.
You can help: Hope Outreach Church in High Point is filling a transfer truck with relief items and supplies to take to Rainsville, Alabama . You can donate items through next Thursday (May 12). More information on the events page at http://www.wbfj.fm/. FYI: The church is located at 2800 Westchester Drive in High Point. http://hopeoutreach.net/contact.php
Call Gloria Swaim at 906-1896 for a drop-off time.
Are you ready for fresh strawberries? Great news: This year’s strawberry crops have come in earlier than normal, because of the warm weather. The strawberry-picking season generally lasts up to 8 weeks. May is ‘Strawberry Month’ in North Carolina. Pick your own strawberry patches (locally) www.pickyourown.org/NCpiedmont.htm
THE LAST WORLD WAR ONE COMBAT VETERAN HAS PASSED AWAY. Claude Choules was 110 years old. Choules signed up to serve in World War One when he was just 14 years old. Choules' son told local press at the time of his father's birthday in March that his father quote, "hated war". There is believed to be one last surviving World War One veteran, a woman, Florence Green who served with Britain's Royal Air Force in a non-combat role.
Political unrest in Syria has resulted in increased pressure and even attacks on Christians. Protests have taken place recently in Syria demanding the resignation of the country’s President. Now, hard-line extremists are demanding that Christians join in the protest…or leave the country. Some Christians fear that a change in Syria’s leadership could erode the freedom that they have experienced.
Traffic alerts: Expect heavier traffic congestion
UNC-G Graduation (10am) this morning at the Greensboro Coliseum
UNC-G School of Business graduation (2:30pm)
UNC-G School of Education graduation (6pm)
Saturday…
High Point University (Saturday morning…9am graduation) on the Front Lawn of Roberts Hall. Speaker: Lance Armstrong
A&T State University Commencement Exercises will be this Saturday morning at the Greensboro Coliseum
